WESTCHESTER, Ill., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pediatric Brain Tumor Research Fund of Columbia University Medical Center (the Fund) and BrainLAB teamed up again this year for the 6th Annual Charity Softball Tournament and all-star after-party at ESPNZone in New York City. The June 6 event raised ...

ATLANTA, June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CryoLife, Inc., (NYSE: CRY ) an implantable biological medical device and cardiovascular tissue processing company, today announced that, according to company data, CryoLife's BioGlue(R) Surgical Adhesive has been used in more than 500,000 surgical proc...

Shinseki Encourages Veterans, Families to Help Their Communities
WASHINGTON, June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Heeding President Obama's call for Americans to commit themselves to meaningful, long-term service to their communities as part of the "United We Serve" campaign, Secretary of Veter...

Free family-friendly film festival benefits Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children
HERNDON, Va., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In Northern Virginia, some things in life are still free thanks to Cox Communications. For five nights, from June 24 through June 28, at Van Dyck Park in Fairfax, the...

The American Fertility Association's Infertility Prevention Program
NEW YORK, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- 7.3 million!
That's how many American women have difficulty conceiving, but many of those cases could have been prevented with some simple lifestyle choices and changes. Education is th...

Meanwhile, vaccine won't be ready for months, World Health Organization says
WEDNESDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Underscoring the belief that the new H1N1 swine flu is no more dangerous than regular flu, U.S. health officials said Tuesday that those hospitalized with the infection wh...

And a third never get treatment, new government study finds ,,,,
TUESDAY, May 19 (HealthDay News) -- Over the past year, 16.5 million Americans age 18 or older -- 1 in 13 adults -- experienced at least one bout of major depression, according to a new government survey.
Less than two...

Teleflora Offers Kids the Chance to Celebrate Dad and Give Back To A Worthy Cause
LOS ANGELES , May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, June 21, children will honor father figures in their lives and Teleflora, the world's leading flower wire service, is helping them score a home run with its F...

Data shows 82% of patients have neuropathy onset during their 30s-60s
NEW YORK, May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new national Neuropathy Association poll of peripheral neuropathy patients finds that the majority of respondents had their neurological disease begin during their prime adult y...

Anti-Aging M.D. Shares Secrets on How To Live Forever
NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The hottest new self-help book from Rodale Publishing appears in stores today ... TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever , by world-renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil and anti-aging authority...

Targeting inherited mitochondrial diseases as an archetype for diseases of aging
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Edison Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
a privately held biotechnology company located in San Jose, CA, announced
today that EPI-A0001 (A0001) has ent...

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...performance and cost effectiveness.
The integrated yet segmented recruitment campaign generated considerable interest, yielding nearly 55,000 web hits and click throughs to the online study screener. The project team paced advertising to each study site, in order to ensure that site staff could handl...

...arch at every stage of the PD drug development pipeline. This includes
early-stage discovery research, translational studies that can carry
identified hits forward to the next stage of development, and
proof-of-principle/first-in-human clinical trials.
"The Michael J. Fox Foundation is committed to prio...

...ite multicenter, randomized, double blind study is the first rigorous test of the magnetic stimulation device. -- STIMULATING THERAPY THAT hits A NERVE: Early Research Shows New Implanted Device Helps Alleviate Near-Daily Migraines Stimulating a nerve might be just the tick...

...lls sensitivity to brostallicin and represent
unique and functionally based contexts of vulnerability. Knowledge mining
of the brostallicin siRNA gene hits revealed enrichment of a number of
important molecular concepts and important genes involved in DNA repair. On
the basis of these and related studies,...

... to
conduct this work. Some have established sophisticated drug discovery
programs entirely focused on the highly specialized studies required to
keep hits moving forward toward the clinic. P. Jeffrey Conn, PhD, a member
of the MJFF Scientific Advisory Board, heads one such effort, the Program
in Translat...

...rent treatments. "These independent physician studies provide us with further evidence
that if available, MF101 can be a blockbuster drug once it hits the
market," said Isaac Cohen, O.M.D., Chairman and CEO of Bionovo. "A safe and
effective drug should be able to earn a large share of the $6-7 Billio...

...accines to serve the area's workforce. Concentra will be
hosting flu clinics for area businesses so that employees can be vaccinated
as the flu season hits the Midwest.
Each year 1 in 5 people become sick with influenza. One flu shot can
save a business more than a $1,000 in lost time by an employee who...

...aking the ouch out of the
vaccination with games and free giveaways -- like T-shirts, stickers and
Clorox disinfecting products. Say "Boo!" to the Flu hits the road October 1
in Boston, MA, and will travel across the country, ending in the San
Francisco, CA, area on October 31. Visit http://www.saybootot...

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CHAPEL HILL -- In a game that spawned the term "slobber knocker," is there a limit to the amount of impact a football player's head can handle before the player suffers a concussion"
The answer is yes ... and no, say researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. High-tech helm...

A new national health study funded by the NH&MRC, industry and state governments released today by the International Diabetes Institute in Melbourne shows diabetes is hitting up to 275 new victims each day throughout Australia.
The findings of the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle St...

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When light hits a surface that's difficult to see through, the surface either scatters, abs... cones solidify, they preserve their structures and produce colors as light hits them from different angles.
The beetle's structure also forms helices si...

... this fast-growing, tiny mustard plant reside in a vast database dubbed the Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), which has over 1.6 million page hits each month. The TAIR group, headed by Dr. Eva Huala at Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology, just released a new version of the genome sequence of t...

...rolling patients in 2004 and to date about 90 percent of participants who have developed type 1 diabetes did not have an immediate family history. "It hits them out of left field because the genes have been traveling all through mom's side of the family and dad's side of the family and maybe that magical ...

... Rajesh Gokhale has created a compound in his lab in India that stops tuberculosis in its tracks. In a test tube, the molecule hits four of the bacterium's crucial metabolic pathways at the same time, weakening and ultimately destroying the pathogen.
The problem is that Gokhale's...

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...er to capture different wavelengths of sunlight, and the germanium also serves as the substrate upon which the solar cell is "grown."
When sunlight hits a solar cell, the energy is converted to a flow of electrons in the cell, namely, electricity.
Silicon-based solar cells on Earth have maximum eff...

...ternational stage, since all the articles will be available on its electronic platform www.SpringerLink.com. This will no doubt increase the number of hits and downloads of articles and lead to a higher impact factor," the journal's editor-in-chief Professor Bruno Vellas explained. Bruno Vellas is also th...

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oclaro, Inc. (Nasdaq: OCLR ) has announced the shipment of its 200,000th Fluorescence Filter for biomedical and analytical instrumentation markets. Oclaro filters are used by leading companies in a wide range of biomedical and analytical applic...

Six Apart, the San Mateo-based start-up that is leading the blog tools market space, has all the makings of a Silicon Valley start-up legend.
The two founders - husband-and-wife team of Ben and Mena Trott - were high school sweethearts. They got way into Web publishing and created Moveable Type,...

Terry Hicks, president of the AFL-CIO in western Wisconsin, doesnt expect to see many of his railroad brethren hanging around the union hall these days. Theyre all working overtime handling the tremendous volume of freight traveling the nations rails.
The trains arriving from the coasts are fu...

Three noted UW-Madison biotech researchers, including stem-cell pioneer James Thomson, have begun construction on a laboratory to house a new drug screening company in Madison's University Research Park .
In partnership with Tactics II Ventures LP, a venture capital firm that specializes in ear...

...ease as it appears that, unlike the normal flu which affects the very young and very old most severely, swine flu may be more like the avian flu which hits people in their prime more severely.
In addition, LEAPS conjugates may be used to potentially overcome the virus' mutations by focusing on more...

...ease as it appears that, unlike the normal flu which affects the very young and very old most severely, swine flu may be more like the avian flu which hits people in their prime more severely.
The L.E.A.P.S. technology combines a small peptide that activates the immune system with a small peptide fr...

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CHICAGO, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- First introduced at the European Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in October , Siemens Biograph mCT hits the ground running, experiencing high demand in a time when the current economical situation demands maximum utilization of existing and new imaging e...

...ctron nanobolometer, is potentially 100 times more sensitive than existing bolometers," Gershenson said. "It is also faster to react to the light that hits it."
The research team is publishing a description of the experimental device in an upcoming issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology . The jour...

... "The key goal for companies trying to develop new drugs is to find the best series of compounds that will optimize their chances of turning promising hits into even more promising leads," notes John Sterling, Editor in Chief of GEN.
Merck, for example, tries to make certain that its scientists work on p...

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